Publication: Asimov on Astronomy

Publication: Asimov on AstronomyPublication Record # 406338
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1974-00-00
ISBN: 0-385-04111-X [978-0-385-04111-9]
Publisher: Doubleday
Price:
$8.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: xiii+238
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NONFICTION
Cover: Asimov on Astronomy by NASA
Notes:
- Date from Library of Congress.
- Contents information from Bonanza Books 4th printing. Bonanza Books reprinted the Doubleday version per Bonanza Books copyright page. Per on-line pictures, Bonanza Books used same photo as Doubleday, but layout of cover was slightly different.
- Cover artist credit per rear inside dust jacket flap. Picture of Saturn (19 February 1973) credited as a NASA photo by Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona.
- Collects essays originally published in F&SF. Per the introduction, the bodies of the essays have not been modified from the F&SF versions, but footnotes were added.
- Also includes 40 astronomical photographs to which Asimov has written (per the introduction) captions (consisting of multiple paragraphs) adding information relevant to the essay. These have not been listed.
Price on front flap of Archive.org copy.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 73-80946
- Open Library: OL5433504M

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Nonfiction Title: Asimov on Astronomy • nonfiction by Isaac Asimov

Contents (view Concise Listing)

xi • Introduction (Asimov on Astronomy) • [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
1 • Time and Tide • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
14 • The Rocks of Damocles • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1966) • essay by Isaac Asimov
29 • Harmony in Heaven • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1965) • essay by Isaac Asimov
44 • The Trojan Hearse • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
62 • By Jove! • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
75 • Superficially Speaking • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1962) • essay by Isaac Asimov
89 • Round and Round and ... • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
101 • Beyond Pluto • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
115 • Just Mooning Around • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
127 • Steppingstones to the Stars • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Stepping-Stones to the Stars)
141 • The Planet of the Double Sun • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1959) • essay by Isaac Asimov
153 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1963) • essay by Isaac Asimov
165 • Heaven on Earth • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1961) • essay by Isaac Asimov
176 • The Flickering Yardstick • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
192 • The Sight of Home • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1960) • essay by Isaac Asimov
205 • The Black of Night • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov
218 • A Galaxy at a Time • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1964) • essay by Isaac Asimov

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Publication: Asimov on Astronomy

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